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Sep 15, 2021
11:09:57am
krindorr Truly Addicted User
The only person I mentioned being ripped on is Noall

That was exactly my point of the last message. The only time I ever mentioned ripping on anyone was CB ripping on Noall. The hypothetical that I shared (see below) also isn't a rip on Hall, just an update on some interesting updates on his life since 2009, or even (potentially if we're being very generous to the author) supporting evidence of a Max Hall curse.  I don't think Conan meant anything negative by it, but it just seems unneccesary.  Especially when you start calling out how high his BAC was.


Here's my honest question - would you have a problem with any of the hypothetical below writeups?


From a Salt Lake Paper after BYU's 2021 victory over Utah: "BYU's victory over Utah represented their first victory in over a decade, since Max Hall led the Cougars to an overtime victory in 2009. Max Hall's comments after that game where he stated that "I hate their program. I hate their fans" and that the "the whole university and their fans and organization is classless" started what many called the Max Hall curse. Hall was also notably arrested for theft and cocaine usage in 2014, stealing over $250 worth of electronics after having used cocaine that morning. Eventually, it was another Hall who was able to break the curse, with Jaren Hall completing...."


From a Lousville paper examining Louisville's conference affiliations through the years: "With conferences expanding once again, it's worth taking a retropective look back at how Louisville went from C-USA also-ran to the Big East and eventually landed as a respected member of the ACC.  Their rise began with the hiring of Coach John Smith in 1998.  The next year, Louisville began regularly beating their closest SEC opponent, Kentucky, winning 7 out of 8 matchups at one point.  From 1999-2006, Louisville only lost to Kentucky in 2002 in a year when UK was led by Jared Lorenzen (who, in his post-playing career, would go on to balloon to over 500 pounds and eventually died of obesity-related complications).  That repeated success against an SEC team, even one as maligned as Kentucky, set Louisville apart as a team on the rise"


Is that a reporter just providing an innocuous update on whatever happened to Jared Lorenzen?  Or warning against the dangers of obesity?  Is that how it comes across to you?


Now consider this one.


The noise level inside Lavell Edwards Stadium was reported by many to be the loudest they'd ever heard. Unfortunately, lack of decibel measurement makes it impossible to know for certain with some fans believing that BYU's 1990 upset of then #1 Miami was louder.  Other fans make the case for a 1989 victory over the Air Force Academy where Air Force QB Dee Dowis (who would go on to die 27 years later when he drove drunk with a BAC nearly three times the legal limit, and was involved in a head-on crash as a result of driving the wrong way) successfully lobbied the refs for several noise penalties on the boisterous Cougar crowd.  Whether those games were in fact louder may never be known, but it's clear that this was the loudest BYU crowd in at least 30 years.


To me at least, all three of those just come across as petty.  

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Originally posted on Sep 15, 2021 at 11:09:57am
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